Taking Our History into Our Own Hands: Preserving Our Feminist Roots
Document Type
Event
Faculty Mentor
Julianne Siegfriedt
Abstract
An interdisciplinary capstone archival project on USM's Women and Gender Studies (WGS) Program– the first of its kind in Maine - the students on this panel will present their capstone work of the creation of this archive. The archive includes interviews with experienced colleagues, digitized documents, photos from WGS programming and activist work, publications, and coursework from students over the years. As we approach our fifty-year anniversary of being an academic program, it's critical that we preserve the good work before us in order to illuminate the future of our discipline. In an era of censorship and disinformation about gender, feminism, and racial oppression, we are called to become archivists of our own path. This chronicle is intentionally crafted in an accessible and malleable format which establishes our academic legacy as both created and shaped by our community. The culmination of our project is a publicly available digital archive. Pulling from feminist theory and pedagogical pursuits, we work to embed this project within a feminist praxis; unearthing buried knowledge, highlighting intersectional perspectives, centering marginalized experiences, and championing disability justice.
Taking Our History into Our Own Hands: Preserving Our Feminist Roots
An interdisciplinary capstone archival project on USM's Women and Gender Studies (WGS) Program– the first of its kind in Maine - the students on this panel will present their capstone work of the creation of this archive. The archive includes interviews with experienced colleagues, digitized documents, photos from WGS programming and activist work, publications, and coursework from students over the years. As we approach our fifty-year anniversary of being an academic program, it's critical that we preserve the good work before us in order to illuminate the future of our discipline. In an era of censorship and disinformation about gender, feminism, and racial oppression, we are called to become archivists of our own path. This chronicle is intentionally crafted in an accessible and malleable format which establishes our academic legacy as both created and shaped by our community. The culmination of our project is a publicly available digital archive. Pulling from feminist theory and pedagogical pursuits, we work to embed this project within a feminist praxis; unearthing buried knowledge, highlighting intersectional perspectives, centering marginalized experiences, and championing disability justice.
